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Ted Kosan

Ted has a background in both computer hardware and software with an emphasis in embedded systems and industrial monitoring and control. He is interested in manual and CNC machine tools, Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM), rebuilding cars and all kinds of machinery and studying metaphysics. He is a faculty member in the Computer Engineering Technology program at Shawnee State University in Ohio, USA and is the administrator of a number of Embedded Java related projects.

In 2002, Sun's CTO ( Greg Papadopoulos ) indicated that Telemetry would be the beginning of the next Internet wave and this wave is now washing across the Internet. Greg discussed the concept of Internet waves in a talk titled "The Next Big Thing" during Sun's Analyst conference that year and here are 3 slides from that talk:

If you have not visited the http://java.sun.com/j2se page recently, I suggest you go there and take a look. Hmmmm, "Core Java"... yes, we all know about that. "Desktop Java"... yes, wonderful technology, many of us use it every day. "J2SE Embedded"... what!? J2SE Embedded? Where did that come from?

Believe it or not, this blog account was set up in April of 2004 but I am just now making my first entry! The reason for this is that I wanted the central theme of this blog to be related to Embedded Java but there was not an Embedded Java community on java.net to associate it with... but now there is :-)